Our Culture is Dominated by Christianity: How Will It End?
19 April 2019 [link youtube]
The cultural domination of Christianity (and Islam) over our daily lives does not fall under any simple heading like "Freedom" or "Oppression"… but atheist activists seem to be unwilling to even recognize the problem (they are neither gradually nor passionately working toward any solution).
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there were a lot of strange ironies in
the discourse that ensued after my video my video that dared to question whether or not really the government of France should spend hundreds of millions of dollars to rebuild [Music] it's not so great at use of your time as a viewer it's not so radius of my time for me to be unpacking and explaining and reflecting on those ironies the sad fact is that in the same way that most people who call themselves vegan activists are fake vegans most people who call themselves atheist activists are fake atheists they fundamentally have no vision of the future in which December is not dominated by Christmas and in which the streets of Paris are not dominated by cathedrals the streets of Paris the streets of Montreal I think even if you go to other colonial countries like Australia the extent to which that Christian legacy dominates your daily life and they will excuse this as cultural heritage and tradition they'll use all the same excuses they're familiar with making for why they still celebrate Christmas while being quote-unquote atheists they'll now extend to architecture and if you stop and ask them when you think about the future of Indonesia when you think about the future of Malaysian when you think about the future of Saudi Arabia is that what you want for those places is for the Dominion of Islam to go on forever and ever for Islam to always dominate the calendar for Islam to always dominate the streets the physical geography the social geography for Islam to always dominate education so the children are always going to Islamic education and then very simply you can change the word Islam to Christianity and say well why is it you have no vision for the future in the Western world where Christianity doesn't dominate our lives in this way the reason why this is so hard for people to cope with I mean of course partly it's just shocking it's just shocking to be the one person who dares to question spending millions and perhaps 1 billion dollars on rebuilding notre-dame Cathedral but that that shock aside the discourse I'm trying to engage in here doesn't fall neatly into familiar categories like rights and freedoms it doesn't fall neatly into a question of separation of church and state do you have the right to do this do you have the freedom to that and when I talk about December being dominated by Christmas I'm not talking about oppression I'm not talking about the church coming and terrorizing me and oppressing me and forcing me to celebrate Christmas that's not what happens we're getting into a gray area here of talking about long-term cultural change institutional change education and ultimately government policy all right my daughter has grown up in France for primary home is in France on the streets of France the architecture that surrounds her is Christian all of the architectural monuments there are from century after century showing different architectural styles there are Gothic cathedrals everywhere it's a huge part of her childhood in her form of Education in school and her supposedly secular school she hears about Christmas like every day for two months of the year on the streets again for about a month I suppose Christmas decorations Christmas fairs are paid for and encouraged by the city government think by the provincial and federal government also you know there are all kinds of celebrations of in declarations of Christmas that make it a dominating part of her childhood they make it very difficult to raise a child knowing look is something special about you you're not one of the people who celebrates Christmas okay now Buddhism doesn't have that role in French society it's not the case that there's one month the year where there are all kinds of decorations put up to celebrate the birth of the Buddha or the death of the Buddha for that matter or them but as attaining Nirvana for them and no it's not the case that at public expense or private smells it's not the case that over time just let the centuries go by and life in Paris or life in any other city in France will start to have a cosmopolitan and equal representation of different religions and around the world it's not the case that Buddhism and Hinduism will start to be equally represented in education in the calendar in the culture no and in a sense when you shift from these more formal measures of culture to the informal measures to the the commercial culture the role that Santa Claus has in life equivalent to something like Batman and Superman and Mickey Mouse just the the commercialized way in which these traditions rooted in Christianity then become part of the daily lives of children this is a profound long-term knock-on effect now what's the plan for the future guys where are we gonna be in here if this is the Brady 2019 where are we gonna be in 2050 the answer coming back from these atheist discussion forums and even from complete hypocrite atheist leaders like Richard Dawkins is oh no this so-called cultural heritage can go on forever and ever it can go on with an unlimited budget that it can and should be continued forever and the counter-argument is difficult for people to make precisely because we're talking with the extent to which culturally Christianity dominates our lives and it's it's easier to see when you talk about someone who's an atheist trying to live in a Muslim majority kind of think wow that must be hard it must be hard walking around the streets of you know Islamabad or walking around the streets of riad or any of these Muslim atrocities and just being surrounded all the time by the call to prayer being surrounded all the time by you know Islamic architecture so on and so forth and by the public celebration of Islamic festivals right gee that must be hard to be an atheist doing that do you not see that it's hard to be an atheist and raise a child in Montreal Canada do you not see the way in which it's hard to be an atheist and raise a child in Paris because of the cultural domination of that society by Christianity in various forms its domination but it's not oppression right and these kinds of cultural expectations have an insidious role in our lives I'm divorced now when I was married to my max wife my ex-wife and I we went to see a doctor during her pregnancy and we got tests and this doctor was freaking out this doctor was not composed was not this doctor was not talking to us in a rational down-to-earth matter the story was really shaking up because one of the tests came back with a worrying sign for the health of the baby turned out to be completely fake but doesn't matter false shouldn't say fake turned out to be false we did more tests and things were fine but at that moment this doctor is like trembling and upset and really freaked out because you've got a bad so I want to know more about the science behind this test result and what does this mean and the doctor is not able to answer these questions she's shaken up and she says to us just go home and pray to God it's not a nurse it's not the secretary this is a professional medical doctor who told us to go home and pray to God no I'm still not oppressed freedom of speech doctors have the right to say that and I had the right to say back to her hey you know what when I have a medical and scientific problem in my life I'm interested in medical and scientific information and I do not pray to God she was show so shaken up this woman this doctor she says back to us said oh boy if you don't pray to God then just go home and pray to Buddha or pray to Vishnu or pray to whoever you praise him and ahead see her again I do not pray to any gods poor not even what Buddhism is about as a religion frankly but that's the story um it was a very dramatic and very tense scene and this woman the doctor she was wearing traditional Muslim headscarf traditional hair covering traditional flowing kind of robe under her lab coat okay she was I guess an Orthodox Muslim person or however you want to put it she was a strict observer of the Islamic religion who had migrated to Canada and was working in this doctor's office okay why do we have this conversation what what's the background to all this well I can tell you it's exactly a form of cultural Dominion cultural done as she's grown up with an education and a set of expectations it doesn't occur to her that it's immoral or inappropriate for her to say to us in these circumstances just go home and pray to God all right and it is immoral it's deeply immoral even if we believe in God even if we were also Christian or something it would be immoral it would be wrong to say this to a patient to a customer I want to say in these circumstances at a hospital or in a doctor's office now we had another encounter with a Muslim male doctor at the same clinic same same office I don't know I think they were married I think they were husband wife but I don't know that but there was another doctors and male doctor and my wife went in to report to him a bunch of concerns related to pregnancy in her and her health and he was okay up to a point and then the moment the word vagina came up which has to come up guys pregnancy and childbirth lates to China he completely freaked out again he was trembling and messed up and looking down putting his face his hand and saying and he said this all in a gush of words that he wants nothing to do with women's health or women women's reproductive health he refuses to have anything to do with that he wants to focus on men's health and if she has any problems of that kind relating to pregnancy her health she should go talk to another medical doctor he's he's not gonna handle it this was really unprofessional behavior this guy had a complete freak out if he happened to be Muslim I had one other experience like this with a woman who was a white Christian she was working she was a not an x-ray technician she was an ultrasound technician so he does this scanning to show you the baby she was a white Christian woman who grown up with this white Christian education to such an extent that she literally could not say the word penis or vagina and like this came up it's like we're doing an ultrasound we want to know the gender of the baby talking you and it's like wow you're really bent out of shape by having a Christian upbringing okay in this way profoundly and pervasively christianity and islam are forces that dominate and shape our culture and just tell me how is it gonna end when is it gonna change these a theists these so-called atheist these fake atheists can sit back and feel morally superior to me and say oh oh you don't understand anything ISM at all hey true atheist celebrates Christmas Oh a true atheist pays 1 billion US dollars to to rebuild the notre-dame Cathedral oh no no you must be some kind of Luna trip you must be some kind of maniac to be talking about a long-term cultural change well guess who's winning guys this is already to 2019 centuries and centuries have gone passed since the French Revolution centuries and centuries of gone past since the fundamental idea of having a society built on reason and not on endlessly continuing the cultural ossification of the past the cultural assumptions the cultural accretions of the past this fundamental challenge to worshipping tradition simply because it's traditional and not questioning whether it's true or good or useful at what point do we stop circumcising our children because we know it's medically and morally wrong and at what point do we start passing laws for public safety to prevent parents from making that decision on behalf of their children and cutting off pieces of their bodies it scars them for the rest of their lives at what point does that happen guys and who are the leaders in this so-called atheist movement who are even willing to ask those questions why is it that there's censorship within Reddit within Reddit atheist groups that will not let my point of view be heard that insists and enforces uniformity of opinion that says this reddit group is committed to the opinion that this is a tragedy that the Notre Dame Cathedral burnt down and that it must be rebuilt and nobody else led a comment anyone who says to the contrary will have their have their contribution deleted or will be banned from the discussion that's where we're at in 2019 that's where we're at because so-called atheist movement is by and for fake atheists it's by and for people who don't even have enough of a long-term vision to think about their own children's future just one generation and how it is you can raise your own children not being culturally and conceptually dominated by forces like yeah Santa Claus Christmas Gees and ultimately these are gonna have impacts not just on government policy not just on how schools are organized not just on what textbooks are used ultimately this is something that has to have an impact on the physical and social geography of our cities I don't want the future of Saudi Arabia to be dominated by Islam forever and ever and I don't want the future of Montreal Canada to be dominated by the genocide a legacy of the Catholic Church because in Canada it is genocide and there's no way you can justify spending millions of dollars on the notre-dame Cathedral as if it were a Holocaust Museum it's the very opposite this isn't something telling you the history of the Christian Holocaust this would be the equivalent of putting millions of dollars into an institution that is Pro Holocaust that's celebrating the greatness of that same institution during centuries and centuries of slavery feudalism Hall cost all the barbarity of the dark ages okay Emanuel Mack crawl would be in a very difficult position if he stood up and as a leader said hey guys the future of France cannot be the endless repetition and worship of our past if we're going to rebuild the notre-dame Cathedral we can't make it into a second-rate imitation of what it was we have to come up with something better even if that's something better is a museum explaining to the people of Paris the history of their own City the history of the role of religion maybe the history of the French Revolution too if it was doing something to played a positive educational role for the future of that culture and wasn't trying to simply celebrate the worst aspects of its medieval past people like to disrespect my truth but the fact is that you I don't know
the discourse that ensued after my video my video that dared to question whether or not really the government of France should spend hundreds of millions of dollars to rebuild [Music] it's not so great at use of your time as a viewer it's not so radius of my time for me to be unpacking and explaining and reflecting on those ironies the sad fact is that in the same way that most people who call themselves vegan activists are fake vegans most people who call themselves atheist activists are fake atheists they fundamentally have no vision of the future in which December is not dominated by Christmas and in which the streets of Paris are not dominated by cathedrals the streets of Paris the streets of Montreal I think even if you go to other colonial countries like Australia the extent to which that Christian legacy dominates your daily life and they will excuse this as cultural heritage and tradition they'll use all the same excuses they're familiar with making for why they still celebrate Christmas while being quote-unquote atheists they'll now extend to architecture and if you stop and ask them when you think about the future of Indonesia when you think about the future of Malaysian when you think about the future of Saudi Arabia is that what you want for those places is for the Dominion of Islam to go on forever and ever for Islam to always dominate the calendar for Islam to always dominate the streets the physical geography the social geography for Islam to always dominate education so the children are always going to Islamic education and then very simply you can change the word Islam to Christianity and say well why is it you have no vision for the future in the Western world where Christianity doesn't dominate our lives in this way the reason why this is so hard for people to cope with I mean of course partly it's just shocking it's just shocking to be the one person who dares to question spending millions and perhaps 1 billion dollars on rebuilding notre-dame Cathedral but that that shock aside the discourse I'm trying to engage in here doesn't fall neatly into familiar categories like rights and freedoms it doesn't fall neatly into a question of separation of church and state do you have the right to do this do you have the freedom to that and when I talk about December being dominated by Christmas I'm not talking about oppression I'm not talking about the church coming and terrorizing me and oppressing me and forcing me to celebrate Christmas that's not what happens we're getting into a gray area here of talking about long-term cultural change institutional change education and ultimately government policy all right my daughter has grown up in France for primary home is in France on the streets of France the architecture that surrounds her is Christian all of the architectural monuments there are from century after century showing different architectural styles there are Gothic cathedrals everywhere it's a huge part of her childhood in her form of Education in school and her supposedly secular school she hears about Christmas like every day for two months of the year on the streets again for about a month I suppose Christmas decorations Christmas fairs are paid for and encouraged by the city government think by the provincial and federal government also you know there are all kinds of celebrations of in declarations of Christmas that make it a dominating part of her childhood they make it very difficult to raise a child knowing look is something special about you you're not one of the people who celebrates Christmas okay now Buddhism doesn't have that role in French society it's not the case that there's one month the year where there are all kinds of decorations put up to celebrate the birth of the Buddha or the death of the Buddha for that matter or them but as attaining Nirvana for them and no it's not the case that at public expense or private smells it's not the case that over time just let the centuries go by and life in Paris or life in any other city in France will start to have a cosmopolitan and equal representation of different religions and around the world it's not the case that Buddhism and Hinduism will start to be equally represented in education in the calendar in the culture no and in a sense when you shift from these more formal measures of culture to the informal measures to the the commercial culture the role that Santa Claus has in life equivalent to something like Batman and Superman and Mickey Mouse just the the commercialized way in which these traditions rooted in Christianity then become part of the daily lives of children this is a profound long-term knock-on effect now what's the plan for the future guys where are we gonna be in here if this is the Brady 2019 where are we gonna be in 2050 the answer coming back from these atheist discussion forums and even from complete hypocrite atheist leaders like Richard Dawkins is oh no this so-called cultural heritage can go on forever and ever it can go on with an unlimited budget that it can and should be continued forever and the counter-argument is difficult for people to make precisely because we're talking with the extent to which culturally Christianity dominates our lives and it's it's easier to see when you talk about someone who's an atheist trying to live in a Muslim majority kind of think wow that must be hard it must be hard walking around the streets of you know Islamabad or walking around the streets of riad or any of these Muslim atrocities and just being surrounded all the time by the call to prayer being surrounded all the time by you know Islamic architecture so on and so forth and by the public celebration of Islamic festivals right gee that must be hard to be an atheist doing that do you not see that it's hard to be an atheist and raise a child in Montreal Canada do you not see the way in which it's hard to be an atheist and raise a child in Paris because of the cultural domination of that society by Christianity in various forms its domination but it's not oppression right and these kinds of cultural expectations have an insidious role in our lives I'm divorced now when I was married to my max wife my ex-wife and I we went to see a doctor during her pregnancy and we got tests and this doctor was freaking out this doctor was not composed was not this doctor was not talking to us in a rational down-to-earth matter the story was really shaking up because one of the tests came back with a worrying sign for the health of the baby turned out to be completely fake but doesn't matter false shouldn't say fake turned out to be false we did more tests and things were fine but at that moment this doctor is like trembling and upset and really freaked out because you've got a bad so I want to know more about the science behind this test result and what does this mean and the doctor is not able to answer these questions she's shaken up and she says to us just go home and pray to God it's not a nurse it's not the secretary this is a professional medical doctor who told us to go home and pray to God no I'm still not oppressed freedom of speech doctors have the right to say that and I had the right to say back to her hey you know what when I have a medical and scientific problem in my life I'm interested in medical and scientific information and I do not pray to God she was show so shaken up this woman this doctor she says back to us said oh boy if you don't pray to God then just go home and pray to Buddha or pray to Vishnu or pray to whoever you praise him and ahead see her again I do not pray to any gods poor not even what Buddhism is about as a religion frankly but that's the story um it was a very dramatic and very tense scene and this woman the doctor she was wearing traditional Muslim headscarf traditional hair covering traditional flowing kind of robe under her lab coat okay she was I guess an Orthodox Muslim person or however you want to put it she was a strict observer of the Islamic religion who had migrated to Canada and was working in this doctor's office okay why do we have this conversation what what's the background to all this well I can tell you it's exactly a form of cultural Dominion cultural done as she's grown up with an education and a set of expectations it doesn't occur to her that it's immoral or inappropriate for her to say to us in these circumstances just go home and pray to God all right and it is immoral it's deeply immoral even if we believe in God even if we were also Christian or something it would be immoral it would be wrong to say this to a patient to a customer I want to say in these circumstances at a hospital or in a doctor's office now we had another encounter with a Muslim male doctor at the same clinic same same office I don't know I think they were married I think they were husband wife but I don't know that but there was another doctors and male doctor and my wife went in to report to him a bunch of concerns related to pregnancy in her and her health and he was okay up to a point and then the moment the word vagina came up which has to come up guys pregnancy and childbirth lates to China he completely freaked out again he was trembling and messed up and looking down putting his face his hand and saying and he said this all in a gush of words that he wants nothing to do with women's health or women women's reproductive health he refuses to have anything to do with that he wants to focus on men's health and if she has any problems of that kind relating to pregnancy her health she should go talk to another medical doctor he's he's not gonna handle it this was really unprofessional behavior this guy had a complete freak out if he happened to be Muslim I had one other experience like this with a woman who was a white Christian she was working she was a not an x-ray technician she was an ultrasound technician so he does this scanning to show you the baby she was a white Christian woman who grown up with this white Christian education to such an extent that she literally could not say the word penis or vagina and like this came up it's like we're doing an ultrasound we want to know the gender of the baby talking you and it's like wow you're really bent out of shape by having a Christian upbringing okay in this way profoundly and pervasively christianity and islam are forces that dominate and shape our culture and just tell me how is it gonna end when is it gonna change these a theists these so-called atheist these fake atheists can sit back and feel morally superior to me and say oh oh you don't understand anything ISM at all hey true atheist celebrates Christmas Oh a true atheist pays 1 billion US dollars to to rebuild the notre-dame Cathedral oh no no you must be some kind of Luna trip you must be some kind of maniac to be talking about a long-term cultural change well guess who's winning guys this is already to 2019 centuries and centuries have gone passed since the French Revolution centuries and centuries of gone past since the fundamental idea of having a society built on reason and not on endlessly continuing the cultural ossification of the past the cultural assumptions the cultural accretions of the past this fundamental challenge to worshipping tradition simply because it's traditional and not questioning whether it's true or good or useful at what point do we stop circumcising our children because we know it's medically and morally wrong and at what point do we start passing laws for public safety to prevent parents from making that decision on behalf of their children and cutting off pieces of their bodies it scars them for the rest of their lives at what point does that happen guys and who are the leaders in this so-called atheist movement who are even willing to ask those questions why is it that there's censorship within Reddit within Reddit atheist groups that will not let my point of view be heard that insists and enforces uniformity of opinion that says this reddit group is committed to the opinion that this is a tragedy that the Notre Dame Cathedral burnt down and that it must be rebuilt and nobody else led a comment anyone who says to the contrary will have their have their contribution deleted or will be banned from the discussion that's where we're at in 2019 that's where we're at because so-called atheist movement is by and for fake atheists it's by and for people who don't even have enough of a long-term vision to think about their own children's future just one generation and how it is you can raise your own children not being culturally and conceptually dominated by forces like yeah Santa Claus Christmas Gees and ultimately these are gonna have impacts not just on government policy not just on how schools are organized not just on what textbooks are used ultimately this is something that has to have an impact on the physical and social geography of our cities I don't want the future of Saudi Arabia to be dominated by Islam forever and ever and I don't want the future of Montreal Canada to be dominated by the genocide a legacy of the Catholic Church because in Canada it is genocide and there's no way you can justify spending millions of dollars on the notre-dame Cathedral as if it were a Holocaust Museum it's the very opposite this isn't something telling you the history of the Christian Holocaust this would be the equivalent of putting millions of dollars into an institution that is Pro Holocaust that's celebrating the greatness of that same institution during centuries and centuries of slavery feudalism Hall cost all the barbarity of the dark ages okay Emanuel Mack crawl would be in a very difficult position if he stood up and as a leader said hey guys the future of France cannot be the endless repetition and worship of our past if we're going to rebuild the notre-dame Cathedral we can't make it into a second-rate imitation of what it was we have to come up with something better even if that's something better is a museum explaining to the people of Paris the history of their own City the history of the role of religion maybe the history of the French Revolution too if it was doing something to played a positive educational role for the future of that culture and wasn't trying to simply celebrate the worst aspects of its medieval past people like to disrespect my truth but the fact is that you I don't know